It received its name from the broomcorn grown in the area.

Agricultural plants such as corn, broomcorn and cotton is about planted.

Small flakes, pieces, grains of broomcorn were moving about on the tabletop, and there was no breeze.

Homesteaders soon followed the ranchers and much of the grassland was devoted to growing Broomcorn.

These crops included milk, butter, potatoes, and broomcorn.

The main crop cultivated in large scales is broomcorn, which is used to make traditional broom.

Red and black broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare) is striking as a screen or tall background plant.

And Illinois broomcorn farmers.

Growing a Craft Q. I would love to try growing some broomcorn to make my own brooms.

There is a new clause propping up America's broomcorn industry, broomcorns being those thin, brittle straws that have been replaced on virtually all brooms by plastic.

The group considers the Broomcorn Festival parade in their hometown of Arcola to be their flagship parade.

Broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet were important crops beginning in the Early Neolithic of China.

Small handwoven cotton rag rugs sell for $40, placemats are $7 and a handrolled and tied fantail broomcorn broom is $7.

It uses the traditional Manchu staple foods of millet, broomcorn millet, soybean, pea, corn and broomcorn.

Her father, Walter, a professional gambler, moved Sonora and her sister Dorothy to a one room dugout on a broomcorn farm settled by her grandfather near Lamar, Colorado.

They had been collecting grains of broomcorn millet and wild rye from a mixed stand that also included the nodding seed heads of unripe two-row barley, and both einkorn and emmer wheat.

A. Broomcorn isn't really corn; it is sorghum, usually identified as Sorghum vulgare or S. bicolor, and is closely related to millet and to the sorghum used to make sweet syrup in the South.

Seeds for broomcorn are sold by Bountiful Gardens, (707) 459-6410 or www.bountifulgardens.org, which also sells a reprint of "Broom Corn and Brooms," a 62-page pamphlet with instructions for cultivation and use, first published in 1887.

Based on 19th-century designs that originated in Appalachia and evolved in the Ozarks, the brooms are handmade of broomcorn, with handles of carved sassafras or wood that has been shaped naturally by twining honeysuckle vines.

An Amish broom, handmade in Lancaster, Pa., with black broomcorn bristles, is $18 at the American Folk Art Museum gift shop, 2 Lincoln Square (66th Street and Columbus Avenue), (212) 595-9533.

Paul imagined for a moment - as he often imagined on visits to Building 58 - that he was Edison, standing on the threshold of a solitary brick building on the banks of the Iroquois, with the upstate winter slashing through the broomcorn outside.

In fact, he did not even use the word kafir.

A Kafir boy was sitting by the hall door.

The Kafir was clearly on guard for the night.

And whoever allows what God has prohibited is a kafir.

It is his strategy that will sweep the kafir back into the sea.

I am writing this in a Kafir garden, where we have stopped for breakfast.

He was a very superstitious old Kafir and a great villain.

I rang the bell, and a smiling Kafir boy answered it.

I heard the door of the room open, and at the same time the Kafir stirred and moved.

He was the most complete outsider I ever came across, a real white Kafir.

I must risk the Kafir boy waking up.

The door was opened by a Kafir boy.

At this point in time, kafir develops into a concept in itself.

Today, it is disputed if the term Kafir really defines a traditional ethnic group.

That is the heart of the kafir or ungrateful disbeliever.

It was not your followers who murdered the kafir."

This was then known as the "Kafir version".

He was in active military service, and served with distinction during the Kafir invasion in 1876.

This quote addresses the relationship between the concepts of kafir and jihad in Islam.

Old Kafir women telling ghost stories around an open fire, and jackals whining in the dark.

"What do you know of my God, kafir?"

"Kafir" was used as a label of religious separation, when in reality the conflict reflected larger political and cultural issues.

Never have I seen a man, black or white, so delighted as was that vainglorious Kafir.

"The friendship with the kafir is forbidden."

You are a kafir" - an infidel - "you've been with all these foreigners so long!"